Week 19

      So, midterms are coming up, this should be an interesting week... It's definitely going to be a hard one. Overall I'd have to say homecoming last week was amazing! It was kinda weird that we only had three spirit days instead of 5 but it was still a good week. Overall last week I learned how to finish projectS, it's was definitely a rough week since I had a book presentation on Monday and a paper due the next Monday. I also learned a lot about pedigrees and dominant/recessive traits in bio. And we have to do a project on eugenics for our midterm.

     Challenges faced would be putting our site together in computer. Me and my group are pretty much lost all the time, and our site looks pretty bad. Hopefully we can figure this out soon cause were still, well, lost. Another challenge I am going to face is all the midterms this week. Yay that's great, half days all around, but honestly I'd rather have a full day and skip the midterms all together. The last challenge I faced would have been all the projects I've had to turn in since last week and all the test/quizzes/and hw. I'm still forgetting to turn stuff in. I'm not used to teachers have stuff due literally on your weekend like sundAy night instead of Monday 8:15.

     Successes of this past week would be the small amount of progress my group has made on the site. It's still looks terrible but at least we've got something. Another success would be passing all the tests and quizzes I took last week! It's pretty rare that I didn't fail ANY of them. The last success would be my babysitting job this weekend, I earned alot of money that I needed😜

     My plans for the upcoming week are: studying, studying, and more studyinig! Were in for a thriller of a week! Other plans include going to a wedding this weekend for some random family member I've never met. Should be fun.

     My 20 time project is coming along pretty well. I still have a lot of work to do on it but I've got the general plan down for what I want to do. I'm definitely doing it in explain everything so I can include music clips but I'm not sure how I'm going to fit them into everything else.

     The verse this week is basically saying that if God is for us who can be against us? I think it's definitely important for people to remember that God is never against us, he just wants the best for us.

Week 18

      Wow it's hard to believe we're already on week 18?! I feel like I'm writing a journal or something...anyway last week was definitely my favorite week. Only one day of school! The weekend was a bit rough since I had a project and a test to study for but I survived. As for what I learned I don't remember much from that one day last week but this Monday I learned quite a bit. I learned that have an english paper due Friday morning that I haven't started. I learned about what Abe Lincoln did the few hours before he was killed. And I learned about pedigrees in bio. My team computers is working hard. We've picked out t shirts for our shop and started designing what we want the site to look like. 

     Challenges face would be keeping up with all the hw. I keep forgetting stuff and then getting a renweb 'oh look another thing I forgot!'. It's frustrating. Another challenge is my PLN so far I only have one who answered me back out of the twenty people I tweeted so I'm kinda frustrated. 

     Successes would be my team getting progress on our site. We have alot of cool ideas so I'm excited to see what the final thing is gonna look like. Another success is my English project, I got the timing spot on! Which is pretty rare for me

     My plans for the upcoming week are to get more PLN and continue to work with my team to make our website more amazing than 50 SOC😜

    The bible verse this week basically says that we need to follow Gods example..we need to live in truth, not be greedy or selfish and learn to love others as our self. I definitely need to work on living out this verse.

Weeeek 16

     Literally all I have thought about this week is break... Only 4 days! Ahhh it can't come soon enough.

Anyways, last week was pretty good. The snow days helped a lot since I had a bunch a make up work to do so I was really happy about that. But during the school days I learned computer coding is harder than it looks and the Great Gatsby has multiple meanings... every word Fitzgerald uses has a 'deeper meaning' so its taken us awhile but English honors has finally 'finished' the Great Gatsby even though we really were done reading Monday night.

     Challenges this week would be getting all my projects done, I've spent several late nights trying to get them done. Another challenge would be the coding in computer, it kinda hard to follow since I'm not good at typing but I think I'm catching on. The last challenge would be putting up my Christmas lights this weekend....it was cold, I put them all up and THEN realized I did it wrong and had to take them all down, it was rough...

     Successes would be finishing my projects on time and getting good grades in math, also finally getting the house decorated...our tree isn't up yet but well get there;)

     My plans for this week our to finish all the projects and assignments due before break. Also I'm planning to do some Christmas shopping since I have like no presents for my family. Lastly I'm planning to help out at the bake sale today and Wednesday to help raise funds for gala😜

     20 time is going pretty good. I've been practicing the guitar every other day throughout the week but I still need to do some research and make the PowerPoint. I'm a bit behind but I'm planning to get a lot done today and Thursday in computer class. 

     This verse is basically saying that we shouldn't do anything selfishly, we should be serving for the glory of God not ourselves. 

Week 15

Well it's been a weird two weeks.... out of those two weeks so far Ive only had one day of school!

Yes I know your thinking what? But first there was thanksgiving break, then I got sick and was absent mon, tues and wednes, and I had a field trip on Friday so the only day I actually went to school was Thursday! I still feel like I went to school that entire time...I've spent my entire weekend and snow day doing hw, plus I just discovered I have all this other hw due tomorrow... I don't think the teachers are going to give us a break since they assigned it on Friday:P so much for my snow day. Overall I've learned a lot this past week, specifically that I dislike iPads because they don't give us a snow day, we still have to do our hw because we can turn it in online...

I don't have much of a week to summarize since I was absent but the field trip on Friday was awesome! We went to the Weinberg center and watched a bunch of poems and short stories acted out. I almost didn't get to go because my ride to school forgot to come and get me (cough* kara cough*) but my mom got a sub and came and got me, not even 5 minutes later we were riding in the bus about a minute after we had left school the door on the bus broke, mrs.pam had to sit at the front and hold it closed the whole trip there! It was an interesting day.

Challenges faced would be getting makeup hw done, it was rough, wait... it IS rough.....

Successes would be getting my internship paper turned in one time! It was exactly 4 seconds early! Sadly it was a few pages short but at least I got it in on time(;

My plans for the up coming week are to work really hard for 24 hours straight and try to get all this hw done so I can enjoy the snow day that we will most likely have tomorrow.

Progress on my 20 time lately hasn't been too good. Being absent and all has set me back a lot but ill catch up by next week, hopefully.

'that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ'. I lived out this verse this week by respecting God, i am always sincere during chapel and try to discern what he wants me to learn from the message. 

Week 14 blog

     So I know this blog is a little late, but that's what happens when your sick huh? Well its been an interesting week. So far I've been sick since Thursday but I'm almost certain I'm better now. I definitely didn't enjoy my thanksgiving break (being sick and all) but its still wasn't that bad. Since we didn't have much school I'm just gonna talk about thanksgiving break, some things I'm thankful for, 20 time, and the verse. 

     So me and my mom left right after school on Tuesday to drive to West Virginia where my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins live. We had to leave early because there was going to be this huge snowstorm in West Virginia in the afternoon so if we had waited we would have gotten stuck in it. For the first night I stayed at my grandmas and then for three days I stayed at my cousins, then I spent the last night at my grandmas. Throughout the trip I did a lot of shopping with my cousin, my aunt, my mom, and my sister. We spent like an entire day in one store, it was crazy.... I also ended up going to my second cousin's bridal shower (who I had never met before). Anyway for thanksgiving we went to my Aunt Kathy and Uncle Mike's house. They used to have an indoor pool but they turned it into a huge living room where all the guys play football every thanksgiving. I didn't feel too well but I ate a bunch of food anyway. There were sooo many leftovers I don't know what they did with them all but there was entirely too much food this thanksgiving. For the rest of day we just hung out. My uncles watched the steelers and ravens game which they weren't too happy about... my family is the only that are ravens fans, everyone in WV likes the steelers. After that I played basketball and a couple of rounds of apples to apples with my cousins. Once we got everyone together we did a family photo shoot with everyone since my cousin is a photographer. After that all the girl cousins did a few cheerleading stunts. We also talked a lot about the the teen USA pageant at the Bahamas since we're all going (my cousin won missWVTeenUSA). Overall thanksgiving this year was a lot of fun. I'm thankful for my entire huge family, for all my friends, and for the Christian school I get to attend:)

     20 time this quarter is going so much better. I've gotten two responses and one person actually emailed me back with answered questions! YES! It's also kinda weird... ever since I started tweeting all these famous guitar players, all these random guitar players that I don't know have started following me, not sure if they want me to send them the questions or not? Ive also been keeping up with actually learning to play guitar. I know how to play three songs now and my calluses are tough so I think Im doing ok. Overall 20 time is going really well and so far I have stuck with my schedule of getting tasks done.  

     The verse for this week is Colossians 3:12-18. I lived out this verse this week by showing compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience towards all my family members at thanksgiving. This verse is extremely important for us Christians. Sometimes we forget what it means to be a Christian. I know I have several family members that aren't Christians. It's important that no matter what, we always portray compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 

Last Week

     I'd have to say that was a pretty sweet field trip on Friday. The three hour drive was a bit much but I really enjoyed all the restaurants and places there. Last week was a pretty normal week I don't remember to much from it remember alot from the field trip. Overall I would say I learned alot more about American History through that field trip. The scavenger hunt was really interesting and kept us going in and out of like every building in Philadelphia. I also learned alot about how the government was formed back then and about the kind of lives the people who lived back then had. Life was different back then compared to what we have now. Overall though I would have to say I enjoyed the food the most(; I didn't like the Philly cheese I tried but I really like the big market we went to. The food there was really good

     As for challenges faced I would have to day the past few days Ive had trouble getting work done on my 20 time project. I worked on reading questions for English like all weekend and then I had riding lessons and a 4-H practice thing so I was kinda stretched on time. Usually though I find enough time to practice guitar at least 5 nights a week so I think Im headed in the right direction. Another challenge I faced was my explain everything project for English last week. I really scared that the app was gonna close and delete my whole project but I got lucky and it didnt delete anything! I uploaded it to youtube and presented it to the class the next day. That was by far the smoothest project I've ever done.

     Successes for last week would be getting my movie presentation for English uploaded. I thought that was going to be a problem but I figured it out. Another success was the field trip on Friday. I learned alot about the history of America and had a great time with my friends. The last success for last week is that my team finally decided on a business title and now were working on our website which looks awesome by the way thanks to Alet. 

     My plans and thoughts for the upcoming week include getting some ground covered with my group on our phase 1 project. There is definitely still a lot more work to do in order to have it ready to

 turn in and present by Thursday. I also plan to get some PLN accomplished for my 20 time project. Everyone Ive talked to says you should get an early start on that if you want to get some results. Lastly Im planning finish a couple projects that are due after thanksgiving break cuz I really don't want to have to work on those during my time off. 

     My success on 20 time this week like I said wasn't good. Im still working out the plan for my project and deciding exactly how Im going to fit this all together into a project. However Im planning to get a lot of progress in on this next week since I will have more of a plan laid out. 

     I feel like I lived out the biblical principle last week by not walking in the way of the wicked like it said. I mean Ive never been the kind of person who hangs out with bad people, but its good to know theres a verse out there that explains what and why you shouldn't. Thanks for reading(;

Internship Week

     So internship week...Im sure everyone learned a lot, but not me. Due to a killer upper respiratory infection, I had to cancel my plans to go to West Virginia and work in my aunt's spa. Instead I stayed home and coughed it up all week but by the time I was better we were already too far into the week so no internship for me:/ 

     So instead Im gonna talk about some of my possible career choices just off the top of my head. The first one would be as a marine biologist. I don't know too much about the equipment in this area but I know marine biologists use a lot of technology. Lately I've heard about submarine explorations to observe and better understand sea life. Just the submarine itself relies completely on technology between tracking devices and computers. I also just looked up a general list of equipment they use in everyday work and came up with: scuba gear, telescopes, microscopes, a GPS, satellites, grabbers for sampling off of the bottom, succession plates, quadrants, beach seines, trawls, dredges, thermometers, bathythermograph, hydrometer, salinometer, oxygen probes, current meters, surveying equipment, sounder and fathometers.

     The second possible career choice would be film making which definitely uses a lot of technology. Technology in this career includes film, cameras, lights, sound, music, projectors and speakers. The actual technology involved in the filmmaking includes film, digital media, sound, foley inserts, actor voice dubbing and backgrounds. The latest advancements in this area include steadicam, dolly, CGI, digital technology and stereoscopic imaging. 

     As for my plans for approaching quarter 2 I definitely plan to work on my 20 time project before the due date. I also plan to get all my projects finished ahead of time. I am also hoping to get a good fade on the computer business project with my team no dip;) so yup that's it.